Projects
The role of sensory, fear-related, and inflammatory factors in the persistence of pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain. KU Leuven
Pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain (PLPP) affects 50-90% of pregnant women and is often dismissed as a normal part of pregnancy. However, the long-term consequences can be dramatic. Up to 21% of women with PLPP still have pain three years postpartum, and 10% experience disability, poorer quality of life, and lower ability to work 11 years after delivery. Because the multifactorial etiology of PLPP is unclear, prevention and treatment fall ...
The vestibular system in children with neurodevelopmental disorders: a neglected sense? Ghent University
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention/deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and developmental coordination disorder (DCD), pose a serious threat to a normal, social, academic and professional life. The past decades, there has been an increasing interest in the processes affected in those with NDDs, especially given the substantial comorbidity of ASD, ADHD and DCD. So far, relatively little ...
Optimizing non-invasive brain stimulation to improve interlimb coordination in older adults by individualizing parameters. Hasselt University
Small heat-shock proteins in health and disease. KU Leuven
Recordings in premotor and posterior parietal cortex in monkeys and human patients during grasping. KU Leuven
More and safer mobility in adolescents: testing a conceptual framework to explain active and safe commuting in adolescents Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Understanding the characteristics of adolescents who walk, cycle or drive a motorcycle or car for short ...
Toward a more integrated understanding of impulsivity: response vigor in decision-making Ghent University
Impulsivity is a multifaceted concept that has been related to important life outcomes in various domains of behavior. It broadly refers to a predisposition to act rapidly and prematurely without sufficient consideration of information, and contains components of both decision and action. The tendency to decide without sufficient information (reflection impulsivity) and the tendency to act rapidly (action impulsivity) are often considered to ...
Investigating precision in predictive coding during walking to music and metronomes in progressive multiple sclerosis and cerebellar disease. Hasselt University
tDCS - transcranial or transcutaneous Direct Current Stimulation KU Leuven
In the PhD project ‘Non-invasive tDCS neuromodulation basic neural mechanisms’, healthy volunteer experiments will be performed to investigate the neuronal mechanisms underpinning observed tDCS motor effects. Understanding the neuronal mechanism and the relative contribution of the transcranial and transcutaneous mechanism, allows a more focused stimulation and more effective neuromodulation technologies without undesired side effects. ...